YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. Finally, Fannin offers strategies for success for the aspiring (or current) entrepreneur.

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Asia Technical Review Vietnam Singapore 167

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

6- Representation of a mobile and maternal mammal. We eventually settled on the kangaroo, which is both mobile and maternal, literally transporting its young in its pouch. The word is popular in South India. The post 26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names appeared first on Hearpreneur.

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Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 149

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the past week, Rakuten , a Japanese e-commerce company, bought Viber , a mobile messaging video app, for $900M; and Facebook bought WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app with 450M active monthly users globally (almost entirely outside of the US), for a deal that could be worth $19B after earnouts.

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India North America Ukraine Silicon Valley 107

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution.

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Africa India Bangladesh United States 106

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

Vijay Anand is an entrepreneurially-minded professional with more than 13 years of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur , an advisor, and a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. I came back to India , in 2004.

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India Silicon Valley Early Stage Asia 208

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Held on January 15 to 17, 2012 in Mumbai, India, the event is designed to create a forum for some of the top marketing professionals to congregate and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get the marketing edge.

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Asia India Mobile SEO 171

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

thebarefootvc

MARCH 3, 2020

India’s Supreme Court today announced a historic ruling: they overturned The Reserve Bank of India’s 2018 circular that effectively banned cryptocurrency trading, making it illegal for crypto exchanges to link to bank accounts. The post India: A Historic Crypto Ruling appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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India China Government Mobile 45

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I am originally from India but have been away from the country for almost 16 years. As a result of cross-cultural integration, I could no longer identify myself with the traits of the Young Indian lad who left India at the age of 21. The name of my company is Charming Love Ltd. That’s why the name has the word ‘wallet’ embedded in it.

Naming 105

Naming Artificial Inteligence Kansas Entrepreneur 105

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Her innovations and drive earned her Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 by the American Business Awards organization. She and her family explored every possible avenue for treatment, and they found a number of methods that helped ease her pain and improve her mobility. Source: Pixabay. Ashley Black is not the type to give up on herself.

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Costa Rica Programming Entrepreneur Alabama 135

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. It gives me great satisfaction to observe this evolution, and play a small role in shepherding these young entrepreneurs along. Optimum Mobility Services.

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India Entrepreneur Asia Programming 117

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2018

Agam Berry is an Indian entrepreneur whose expertise lies in digital marketing. Berry’s passion is driving India forward as a global leader in the digital industry. Here are six startup tips for aspiring Indian entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses, like he did. He graduated from Punjab University.

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Entrepreneur Social Media India Startup 196

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tracking and payments will happen via the respective mobile apps. Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla is the founder of Click Labs , a technology solution provider with 5+ years of industry experience in developing enterprise grade solutions with focus on mobility. Scheduling. You can find Samar on Twitter and LinkedIn. .

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Demand Software Review Technical Review SMS 138

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This will get you couple hundred sign ups from early adopters and mobile app enthusiasts. Many mobile entrepreneurs got their first customers through direct emailing. With Offices in San Francisco, Melbourne and India, Appster is quickly becoming a worldwide leader in mobile application development. Survey Tools.

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San Francisco Cofounder Application Development India 100

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

But if he were to lose his job, the developer would face the prospect of being forced to return to his native India, relinquishing his toehold in the States. Marks thinks the bill would spur innovation and growth and encourage the retention of a very talented crop of foreign-born entrepreneurs. Howard Marks. “We need it badly.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco 60

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mobile phone technological advance. Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing. Transformation of Mobile Handset business. During that time, he had key successes.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 129

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. He simply is inspirational as an entrepreneur, an inventor and as somebody who wants to make a difference in the world.

Technical Review 362

Technical Review America Partner United States 362

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' The answer is no.

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Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2014

Hosted online at Ashoka Changemakers - a community that connects social entrepreneurs around the globe to share ideas, inspire, and mentor each other – application for the competition is now open and will close midnight 1 August 2014.

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Indonesia Peru Nepal Nigeria 160

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While many were going on vacations and traveling, business was still being completed for many entrepreneurs and business owners. I was able to have a mobile application for iOS and Android developed and ready for launch with advertisers lined up. Summer is over. Image Credit: Elisa Klein. It wasn’t easy.

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Los Angeles Las Vegas Entrepreneur Phoenix 48

Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2011

Annupama Chandrasekaran of Livemint.com offers us an inside look at India’s some of India’s student entrepreneurs and their firms. Welcome to India’s student start-ups—companies founded by people in graduate and postgraduate schools across the country. that is true of student start-ups in general.

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India Entrepreneur Mobile Web 50

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It was my first time in the city and I must say that I was immediately taken by the energy of the city and of the entrepreneurs that I met at the conference. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors.

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Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. However, from the point of view of an investor or entrepreneur these are not the insane land grabs that we experienced in past decades. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows). Hardware keeps getting better.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley San Francisco Asia California 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. You are also less likely to be an entrepreneur when your personal obligations, like family and mortgage pile up. What is your mobile strategy? Tell us about the Meebo launch.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

E-commerce is getting huge in India – according to industry watchers, the industry is expected to grow a compound annual growth rate of 57 per cent and is likely to reach US$34.2 billion by 2015.

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India Private Equity Aggregator Mobile 217

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms exclude African-Americans and sexually harass women tech entrepreneurs and we also see Silicon Valley firms talking up some “lack of pipeline” bullcrap.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Africa 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. Last month the National Venture Capital Association released a survey which reflected investor’s optimism on high-risk startups, and gave every indication that VCs would continue to invest, particularly in IT, mobile, and cloud-based technologies.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

A lot of web development companies offer cost-effective web solutions to help new entrepreneurs build their business website. Some of the best options include: Wix : With its easy drag-and-drop interface, Wix offers a large array of free design templates (mobile compatible) that works for almost all type of businesses. Of course not.

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Cost Web Development eCommerce Philippines 75

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. They are a major sponsor of several accelerator programs, including Startup Weekend ; Global K-Startup , which “aims to help Korean startups go global,” and 10,000 Startups in India.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Technology ubiquity.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63